Splicing a Y with an eye splice on each end (three total)

[Snaps]

Hello fellow hangers! I've been absent for... awhile. I'm undertaking a small project at home using some 1/2" Samson Duraplex, and I'm curious about how to go about splicing the form in the attached picture with the rope. Three ends, each with an eye splice; think porch swing.

I could splice a single length with an eye on each end (1 & 2), and then slip another length with a single eye (3) all the way up through the first length (1) and let the non-eye end dangle out of the top, allowing for length adjustment... but I don't expect to need adjustment. I'm open to suggestions!

[TominMN]

Here's one thought, without thinking about it very long!

A dogbone with eyes 2 & 3 with a spliced eye in the center. Then another dogbone with one eye spliced through that middle eye and the other end being eye #1.

Or, I suppose, eye #1 could be that middle eye (one with a very long bury) between 2 & 3. That would be much your original idea but the bury for eye #1 exits and becomes the leg of the "Y" for eye #3.

(I guess that was 2 thoughts...)

OR, three dogbones joined by a metal ring, if you don't mind incorporating hardware.

[Phantom Grappler]

Three dogbones with eye spices on each end of all three.
Larkshead all three together in middle.
Eye splice on dogbone number one, can larks head through both eye splices in dogbones number two and three in one smooth move.

Three dogbones with eye splices on each end and one larks head.

Or you can make all three center eye spices interlocking with each of other two eye splices!

Please show pictures of your suspension!
Thanks!

Edit: Wow G-Rat, amazing

[G-Rat]

Here's a solution I found a few years ago. Sorry that I can't remember who originally posted it to give them credit.
3-way-splice-junction.jpg

[PopcornFool]

Here's a solution I found a few years ago. Sorry that I can't remember who originally posted it to give them credit.
3-way-splice-junction.jpg

Three separate dog bones. Slide one end of each dogbone through the eye of another. No additional splicing and no larks head or other knots required.
Simple. Elegant. Effective. Brilliant!!
Thanks for the photo!

[PopcornFool]

And taking this thought further, it seems to me that one could use this same approach to connect any number of dogbones together with a single center point. Just slip each dogbone into the next then the final one back into the first to bring them all together. I'll have to test out this thought exercise at some point.

[Snaps]

Awesome, guys, thank you. Plenty of ideas here to use. I never even considered the triple dogbone idea (sounds like PG's first suggestion, too)... that couldn't be easier, and it's probably what I'll end up doing.

[Snaps]

OK, attempted my first brummel on the "cord" yesterday. Working with 1/2" is nothing like working with 7/64"! It took me an hour to work the brummel through to the right length, and even then, I couldn't bury the end. I 3D printed a 1/2" fid awhile back, and I'm using that along with some solid aluminum wire for pulling the rope through. I might just end up doing a long bury instead! Since this is going on a porch swing, it'll always be under load.

Any other ideas?

[cougarmeat]

Check carefully where there are moving parts. It's all in the word, "swing". Ah, there's the rub. So make sure you are just using the Amsteel to hold two things rather than move against something.

[TominMN]

Check carefully where there are moving parts. It's all in the word, "swing". Ah, there's the rub. So make sure you are just using the Amsteel to hold two things rather than move against something.

The vertex won't be subject to articulation BUT that could be an issue at the top. Also, I'm not a huge fan of Amsteel on Amsteel. I think the joint should be a metal ring with three dogbones spliced to it. Splice one eye on each dogbone right around the ring. Alternatively, you could larkshead each dogbone to the ring. Less elegant. I also think a ring would actually add to the appearance.